What is Lubuntu

Lubuntu is an Ubuntu derivate using the LXDE desktop. It’s designed to be a lightweight and easy-to-use desktop environment. Lubuntu is actually not part of the Ubuntu family, and not build with the current Ubuntu infrastructure. This release is considered as a «stable beta », a result that could be a final and stable release if we was included in the Ubuntu family.

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Julien Lavergne: “I would like to thanks all people involved in the development of Lubuntu during this past 6 months: LXDE developers, people helping on IRC, testing and reporting bugs, making documentation and artwork … It was a pleasure to work with you.”

I think, lubuntu 11.04 is a nice piece of software. I tested many Linux distros, but lubuntu is my favourite – light, fast and no additional configuration to do – it just works. I haven’t seen any bugs yet, but I am still searching for one or two.

Only one thing is very annoying: lack of menu editor. I must manually edit .desktop files if I want to remove something from menu. Irritating, but not so annoying to change distro. I still don’t know if alacarte will work with LXDE menu properly (in 10.10 it was painful), but maybe I will give it a try.

Great Distro!
I got only one problem: I use Midori as browser. When I try to remove chromium, Synaptic obliges me to install firefox (I tried to deselect the firefox’s package but it’s futile). It’s the same when I use “apt-get remove”.
How can I have only one browser?
Thank you!

Great distro!
I’ve only a problem: I use midori to surf on the web, when I tried to uninstall chromium, synaptic obliged me to install firefox, and I cannot deselect the package. I’m forced to install one of these two browsers?
How can I solve this situation?
Thanks!
Srell

Synaptic warns that this will remove LXDE…I prefer being able to pick and choose my installed games. Any chance this will change?

Put this on a computer that doesn’t shut down automatically, so I was afraid I had a crashed hard drive from this, but so far it starts up…How about the old message that it is safe to turn off your computer for old computers like this?

I’m downloading Lubuntu 11.04 right now, but I don’t if I’ll install it or not. The above comments about all the programs (games, Firefox, etc.) that are automatically installed seem to go against the philosophy of a lean install. I don’t play games at all on my desktop, and I don’t appreciate having them take up drive space.

Why not let the users decide what to add?

I, too, would like to see an amd64 version. The lack of such, plus its use of Ubuntu Lucid (!), turned me off from Bohdi Linux.

I’m downloading Lubuntu 11.04 right now, but I don’t if I’ll install it or not. The above comments about all the programs (games, Firefox, etc.) that are automatically installed seem to go against the philosophy of a lean install. I don’t play games at all on my desktop, and I don’t appreciate having them take up drive space.

Why not let the users decide what to add?

I, too, would like to see an amd64 version. The lack of such, plus its use of Ubuntu Lucid (!), turned me off from Bohdi Linux.

Why not just start a Poll and let the Lubuntu community decide what they want in Lubuntu…

I used to work in software development and I can tell you as both a user and a small-bit developer, the last thing users want is for someone to tell them “this is what you need”. I am sure the Lubuntu community would agree that a stripped down Lubuntu-core is what they want….

Just got around to downloading the x64 version and all I can say is bravo! Not only is it less resource hungry than the standard Ubuntu, but the default theme is quite elegant in it’s simplicity. First default theme that I haven’t immediately wanted to trash and overhaul in some time. Thank you!

admittedly lubuntu is nothing but a tweaked version of ubuntu. since there are ppc ports (and amd64 for that matter), one can easily build up ubuntu to be exactly what you want by installing/uninstalling whatever you want. however, the whole point of distros is to take care of all the trouble so you don’t have to worry about it (thus the reason why this “extra” stuff mentioned above is installed).

that being said, i’ll still ask for a ppc version. i’d say there are many ppc machines that could really do well with a “light and fast” distro and lubuntu would be fab for it.

Hello, I think lubuntu 10.10 is better than the last version 11.04.
The previous version was faster and it is the most important feature in these lite distros.
Besides, my point is we need a fast distro without applications and it is very easy to install those applications that one person needs.
Please, where can I find the previos version (10.10) ?

Educational media lab for after school kids program — would also much appreciate Lubuntu for PPC. We are running a dozen G4 Quicksilver 2002’s with stock Nvidia GEFORCE 2 MX400 video cards. Can do testing but would appreciate these ports come from “official” channels.

Would hope there is enough demand to make this seem worthwhile to the developers.

I just installed a PPC lubuntu setup onto an imac i had becasue osx wouldn’t suport tethering over USB with my android phone. (before you sugest it, there’s no wifi in the imac)

it’s quite easy to do a 11.10 lubuntu install on PPC.
first, get a PPC ubuntiu minimal install iso and burn to cd. get it here –> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
at the first prompt you get upon booting- specify ‘cli’ or ‘cli-expert’ instead of ‘install’
this will install a bare bones comand-line only stripped down *buntu.
then, log in once installation is complete. enter this command ‘sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop’
this will download another 760 or so packages. reboot, and you’ll have Lubuntu on your PPC mac.

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